lowsie

He suffers hunger and cold in winter, and heate and thirste in summer; he goes lowsie, he goes lame; he is not regarded; he is not rewarded; here only shines his glorie.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 Various

Which I tell you, that you may the better believe that I am certain, If I catch a _Trout_ in one Meadow, he shall be white and _faint_ and very like to be _lowsie_; and as certainly if

The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638

A lowsie knaue, to haue his gibes, and his moc-keries.

The Merry Wives of Windsor (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

Let it be ne're so foul, or lowsie, _Cæsar_ wore such a one.

The Little French Lawyer A Comedy John Fletcher 1602

I am a polecatt.heers. a lowsie Iest. but if I notch not that rogue tom barbar that makes me looke thus like a

Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590

Now you are an honest man, and a scuruy beggerly lowsie knaue beside:

The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590

3208: This good man (few of you deserue that Title) 3209: This honest man, wait like a lowsie Foot-boy

Henry VIII (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

2218: Obscure and lowsie Swaine, King Henries blood.

Henry VI, Part Two (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623